johnandtinagilbert Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Thought we could laugh at ourselves for a minute. I inherited a Lot of home schooling materials when I started. The 2 things that stood out: WRTR...I looked at it like, "WHAT?" and gave it to the library. I SO wish I would have figured it out! It may have prevented our hellacious remediation in junior high! The other thing...a KONOS workbook that I sold for $2:svengo:I was like..."Chronological, unit study, for the large family? Huh?" It's all funny now b/c I use PR and TOG...not exactly the same things, but pretty close :) My how time changes things! I did keep, which I never use, but just can't throw out...some Basic Math VHS from the Teaching Company. Now, I'm all "OOOHHH the Teaching Company." It's really a dust collector, but I just.can't.part with it. What's on your...if I only had a brain, list? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homeschooling6 Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 (edited) I purchased Saxon Phonics to use with my kiddos when I first started homeschooling. Once I received it, I was like, "What, all that coding, it's too hard and wow, lots of mom time." I ended up giving it away, only to repurchase and use with my last two young ones :tongue_smilie: Wonder how things would be different if I would have used it with all my children. There are a few more things, but I'll have to come back later ;) Edited February 19, 2011 by Homeschooling6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plain jane Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 For me it's been the Usborne history books. I really don't like them. :o I picked up several at a garage sale a while back and after flipping through them, decided that I didn't want to use them in my homeschool. I had History of the Ancient World, Internet-Linked Greeks, etc. TONS of them, actually, and in new condition. I just didn't like them and made the decision to sell them- for cheap too!! :w00t: (normally I'm bad about holding onto books just in case :rolleyes:). Well, here I sit, going through the year plans for TOG and ordering books I'll need and right there are all the titles that used to be sitting on my shelf. :glare: Taunting me to buy them again so we can use them for TOG. :glare: I refuse to give in. :tongue_smilie: I didn't like them the first time and I'm sure I won't like them now, but why oh why must they all be there in the TOG primary resources lists. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8filltheheart Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 (edited) How about right now??? I used to own a couple of Smarr's lit guides and got rid of them b/c I didn't like them. :tongue_smilie: I am considering switching 9th grade ds to Smarr next yr. :confused: Don't ask me why b/c I just don't know!!! ETA: Hey, I actually feel better. My 11th grader was looking over my shoulder while I was typing that and she told me I hadn't sold the British Lit; she had just seen it in our storage cabinet. I went and pulled it out and it is actually Stobaugh and not Smarr. You have no idea how much better that makes me feel b/c I couldn't understand why I thought I might like something that I knew I didn't!! That is so not like me. Buying things that I never should have.....yep! I do that a lot!! But I don't normally re-consider things that I know haven't worked in the past!! Edited February 19, 2011 by 8FillTheHeart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dakarimom5 Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 This is my I should have bought item. Two weeks ago I was at a thrift store and bought Hooked on Phonics Level 1 for $3!! They had all the levels for that price but I didn't buy because I could always come back. IT's been two weeks and I still haven't made it back there, and Lili loves her flash cards with her 80's music cassette tape!!:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrapbabe Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Mine's recent. Two years ago i bought AAS level 1 and thought "oh we'll never use this, too teacher intensive". I sold it (instead of getting a full refund for the company). Then last year I thought, "AAS might actually be what we need". So I bought level 1 and 2. Then I got sick, sent the kids to a private school for a few months while I healed, and sold AAS. I bought it this year and am loving it!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 The flip side to this is that I don't get rid of anything. :lol: I have several things that we never got to or didn't work as well as I had hoped. I'm paranoid about getting rid of them because I know as soon as I do I'll want them back. Oh well, another bookcase is still cheaper than rebuying an expensive program. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveBaby Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 The flip side to this is that I don't get rid of anything. :lol: I have several things that we never got to or didn't work as well as I had hoped. I'm paranoid about getting rid of them because I know as soon as I do I'll want them back. Oh well, another bookcase is still cheaper than rebuying an expensive program. :lol: :lol: I hold onto stuff until I need to sell to buy what I currently think is going to be the next best thing and guarantee a harvard grad and order my homeschool days perfectly! I am starting to figure out (I'm a little slow....) that *using* curricula guarantees success...not researching it! :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnandtinagilbert Posted February 20, 2011 Author Share Posted February 20, 2011 :lol: I hold onto stuff until I need to sell to buy what I currently think is going to be the next best thing and guarantee a harvard grad and order my homeschool days perfectly! I am starting to figure out (I'm a little slow....) that *using* curricula guarantees success...not researching it! :tongue_smilie: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renee in NC Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 (edited) You mean like the Prima Latina set I sold 4 months ago because we were never going to homeschool again? The one I need for the Memoria Press 2nd grade? Edited February 20, 2011 by Renee in FL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrapbabe Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 :rofl: :lol: I hold onto stuff until I need to sell to buy what I currently think is going to be the next best thing and guarantee a harvard grad and order my homeschool days perfectly! I am starting to figure out (I'm a little slow....) that *using* curricula guarantees success...not researching it! :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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